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Julie L. Green (b. 1961 in Yokosuka, Japan) is an artist known for making paintings about food, fashion, and capital punishment. Half of each year is spent on The Last Supper, an ongoing series of 750 plates to date, illustrating final meals of U.S. death row inmates.

Bio
Julie Green has a BFA (1983) and MFA (1996)from The University of Kansas, with Roger Shimomura as major professor. Currently a professor at Oregon State University, Green and husband/ artist Clay Lohmann live in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

Green exhibits widely in the United States and internationally, and frequently is visiting artist around the U.S. Recent solo exhibitions include Texas State University, The Governor’s Office in Salem, Oregon, and The Block Museum at Northwestern University. Julie Green is represented by Upfor Gallery, Portland, Oregon.

Publications
Green’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Oregon Artswatch, a Whole Foods mini-documentary, PBS, Ceramics Monthly, Gastronomica, Glasstire, and A World of Art published by Prentice Hall. The Last Supper book, published by The Arts Center, Corvallis, includes images of 500 plates. Phone Book (2017) includes paintings of phones of Oregon State University students and faculty and is available online at Upfor Editions.

Awards
A recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, Green won the 2015 ArtPrize 3-D Juried Award, was a United States Artist nominee (2017) and an Oregon Arts Commission Fellow (2016). Green is a 2017 Hallie Ford Fellow through The Ford Family Foundation.

To coincide with a 2018 Upfor exhibition, the Oregon Arts Commission’s Career Opportunity Grant and Ford Family Foundation will support a facsimile edition of Picnic Brownies Make Life Easy, Green’s on-going ledger cookbook.